sled
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From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
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sled (plural sleds)
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
- The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
- (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
- "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
- (slang) A snowmobile.
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sledge — see sledge
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sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)
- (intransitive) To ride a sled.
- (transitive) To convey on a sled.
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Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech sled, Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.
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sled m inan
- sequence, succession
- 2012, Radomír Čížek, Velké oživení, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of The Great Reflation by J. Anthony Boeckh, →ISBN, page 15:
- Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.
- It is critical for investors to understand that there is a linked sequence of events that is leading to a potential disaster.
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- sled in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sled in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- sled in Internetová jazyková příručka
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.
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slȇd m (Cyrillic spelling сле̑д)
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Declension of sled
References edit
- “sled” in Hrvatski jezični portal